17 Sep
2004
17 Sep
'04
4:29 p.m.
From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj(a)cubic.org>
All those mainboard clocks are the cheapest you can find/build. It's
perfectly normal for them to leak several minutes per week.
No. You did not catch the discussion:
1. Clock goes perfectly.
2. Use of CDROM device makes the **system clock** go faster.
3. Hardware clock does not go faster. Hardware clock is the
mainboard clock.
So, the problem is in Linux **software** kernel, not in **hardware**.
Clear enough? ;-)
Why kernel thinks the clock goes faster? Does reading the CDROM
generate extra IRQs or something? Is CDROM device under the same
IRQ than the system clock? What goes wrong?
I have not yet verified if recording or playing audio makes the
system clock go faster. If yes, it is not a good thing.
Juhana
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